Endoscope Guide Port Arcuate Channel Surgical Space
Find Innovative SolutionsGenerate Solutions
Solution Overview
Problem
In minimally invasive surgical procedures, existing visualization devices like endoscopes often occupy valuable space, limiting the area available for other surgical tools and staff movement due to their placement, which hinders effective visualization and maneuverability during sub-xiphoid surgical approaches.
Innovation Solution
An endoscope guide port with a housing featuring an arcuate channel, rollers, and gears that allows for the controlled insertion and exit of endoscopes, providing increased space and flexibility without obstructing other tools or staff, utilizing a dial actuator to guide the endoscope through a channel from a proximal to a distal port opening.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Illumination intensity
If endoscopes are placed in the surgical site for visualization, then direct visualization is achieved, but space for other surgical tools and staff movement is limited
Solution Approach 1:
The endoscope guide port serves as an intermediary device that introduces the endoscope into the surgical site through a dedicated channel rather than direct placement. The guide port housing with its arcuate channel acts as a mediator that guides the endoscope from a proximal position to the distal surgical site, allowing visualization while keeping the endoscope organized and positioned through a defined pathway that minimizes space occupation.
2Adaptability or versatility
If multiple surgical tools are introduced into the limited surgical site, then comprehensive surgical capability is achieved, but space for staff movement and tool manipulation is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The guide port divides the surgical space into organized segments: the housing structure creates a defined channel pathway, separating the endoscope introduction route from other surgical tool access areas. This segmentation allows multiple tools to coexist by providing dedicated pathways and organized access points, reducing clutter and improving staff maneuverability while maintaining comprehensive surgical capability.
Data Source
AI summary
An endoscope port having a housing is disclosed. The housing of the endoscope port may include a channel passing therethrough, and a hub which may include a first roller and a second roller. The endoscope port may further include an entrance at an end of the channel, and an exit at an opposite end of the channel. The endoscope port may be configured such that when an actuator moves in a first rotational direction, a first roller moves in a second rotational direction, and a second roller moves in the first rotational direction.